But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a larger cosmos and possibly being able to use this [gravitational waves] as a tool in the future.
BRIAN GREENEIn the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter.
More Brian Greene Quotes
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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That’s my favorite thing.
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…things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren’t, we wouldn’t be here to notice.
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If someone wants to place the word ‘God’ on those collections of words, it’s OK with me.
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The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
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There’s no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.
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Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you’ve built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.
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And putting together the probabilities of quantum mechanics with the certainty of general relativity, that’s been the big challenge and that’s why we have been excited about string theory, as it’s one of the only approaches that can put it together.
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I can’t stand clutter. I can’t stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
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The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That’s what it all comes down to.
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So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars… it just feels like there’s a very good chance that there is another Earth-like planet out there that is able to support some kind of life similar to what we’re familiar with.
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When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my ‘Theorem’.
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Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
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I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.
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